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品名（中）	马嘴
品名（英）	Horse Muzzle
入馆年号	1914年，14.25.1685
策展部门	武器和盔甲（Arms and Armor）
创作者
创作年份	公元 1552
创作地区	原产国: 德国（Country of Origin: Germany）
分类	马术装备（Equestrian Equipment）
尺寸	高 8 1/4 英寸 (21 厘米); 宽 8 1/4 英寸 (21 厘米); 深 10 1/4 英寸 (26 厘米); 重 1 磅 5.9 盎司 (620.9 g)
介绍（中）	这个枪口由一个篮子组成，篮子由几个穿孔的铁板铆接在一起，前面有两个肾形的开口，用于马的鼻孔。它用一个皮制的头巾挂在马头上它用镂空的玫瑰花结装饰，而铁的形状是将粗糙的棍子和荆棘杆重新组合在一起。王冠（篮子的上部）刻有拉丁语格言"SI DEUS NOBISCUBM CANTRO"，这是一个拼写错误的缩写版本，是流行语SI DEUS Nobiscum Quis Contra Nos（如果上帝与我们同在，谁反对我们？）。下面是一个印有1552年的卡通图案。马的嘴被用来防止种马咬人。然而，这些作品似乎首先被用作奢华的马术装饰，尤其是在16世纪下半叶和17世纪初德国东部的时尚中。1552年，这个例子是最早生产的这种类型的枪口之一这种穿孔装饰是16世纪和17世纪生活在德国东南部和萨克森州的刺匠的典型作品。尽管有它们的名字，马刺制造商不仅制造马刺，还制造小型马术硬件，如钻头、马镫、枪口、洞穴或咖喱梳，有时装饰着同样复杂的装饰。
介绍（英）	This muzzle is composed of a basket made of several pierced iron panels riveted together, with two kidney-shaped openings at the front for the horse’s nostrils. It hung on the horse’s head by means of a leather headstall. It is decorated with rosettes in openwork, while the iron is shaped to ressemble ragged staves and bramble rods. The crown (the upper part of the basket) is inscribed with a motto in Latin, SI DEUS NOBISCUBM CANTRO, a misspelled and abbreviated version of the popular statement Si Deus Nobiscum Quis Contra Nos (If God is with us who is against us?). Below, a cartouche bears the date 1552. Horse muzzles were used to preventing stallions from biting. Such pieces, however, seem to have above all been used as lavish equestrian ornaments, particularly in fashion in eastern Germany in the second half of the 16th and the early 17th century. Dated 1552, this example is one of the very first muzzles of this type produced. This pierced decoration is typical of the work of the spur makers living in the southeast of Germany and Saxony in the 16th and 17th centuries. Despite their name, spur makers not only made spurs, but also small equestrian hardware like bits, stirrups, muzzles, cavessons or curry-combs, sometimes adorned with the same intricate decoration.